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Don't try to change the uid/gid of existing users

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Unless we search the entire filesystem to do a chown *and* restart
existing processes owned by that user, there is no sensible way that
we can change uids/gids.  So don't try.
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Eelco Dolstra 2012-08-03 11:03:56 -04:00
parent 0a0c28f812
commit 23cb924fbf
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modules/config/users-groups.nix
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@ -265,15 +265,11 @@ in
oldIFS="$IFS"; IFS=:; set -- $curEnt; IFS="$oldIFS"
prevUid=$3
prevHome=$6
# Don't change the UID if it's the same, otherwise usermod
# will complain.
if test "$prevUid" = "$uid"; then unset uid; fi
# Don't change the home directory if it's the same to prevent
# unnecessary warnings about logged in users.
if test "$prevHome" = "$home"; then unset home; fi
usermod \
--comment "$description" \
''${uid:+--uid $uid} \
--gid "$group" \
--groups "$extraGroups" \
''${home:+--home "$home"} \
@ -296,13 +292,6 @@ in
groupadd --system \
''${gid:+--gid $gid} \
"$name"
else
#echo "updating group $name..."
oldIFS="$IFS"; IFS=:; set -- $curEnt; IFS="$oldIFS"
prevGid=$3
if test -n "$gid" -a "$prevGid" != "$gid"; then
groupmod --gid $gid "$name"
fi
fi
}